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ActiveGrid lights LAMP, grid with
Java-less app server (InfoWorld)
ActiveGrid lights LAMP, grid with
Java-less app server (InfoWorld)
04/08/2005 06:16 PMInfoWorld - ActiveGrid on Monday will announce an early-access release
of its open source enterprise application platform that will leverage
PC-based computing grids and will include an application server not
based on Java.
Microsoft Looks to Extinguish LAMP
Microsoft Looks to Extinguish LAMP
06/17/2005 03:18 PMMicrosoft engineers have toiled for years to make the company's
software industrial strength and worthy of large corporations'
dollars.
Now the software giant faces a different challenge: fending off
open-source alternatives that are good enough for most jobs. At
Microsoft's TechEd customer conference last week, executives spelled
out the company's lineup to combat these cut-rate incursions onto its
turf.
In particular, the company is focused on improving its alternatives to
the so-called
LAMP stack, the combination of the Linux operating
system, Apache Web server, MySQL database, and
scripting languages PHP, Perl or Python.
Microsoft's anti-LAMP strategy is to heap features into its low-end
products and to build a comprehensive set of tools--spanning
development to management--in the hopes of making Windows Server more
attractive.
News source:
ZDNet.comRead full story...Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS
(InfoWorld)
Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS
(InfoWorld)
06/24/2005 03:06 PMInfoWorld - Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully
support the RSS Web publishing standard in its next generation version
of Windows, code-named Longhorn, along with plans to help application
developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows.
Sun, Microsoft look to appease
developers (InfoWorld)
Sun, Microsoft look to appease
developers (InfoWorld)
03/19/2005 03:05 AMInfoWorld - Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are making moves to placate
developers currently dissatisfied with the companies’ stances on
specific development issues.
Sun, Microsoft seek to calm app dev
storm (InfoWorld)
Sun, Microsoft seek to calm app dev
storm (InfoWorld)
03/25/2005 11:14 AMInfoWorld - In separate efforts, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are
taking steps to try to satisfy developers irked with the vendors'
recent policy decisions pertaining to application development.
Borland offers UML for Microsoft
developers (InfoWorld)
Borland offers UML for Microsoft
developers (InfoWorld)
04/18/2005 07:42 AMInfoWorld - Borland Software on Monday is upgrading its Together
modeling suite for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net development. The suite
now includes UML 2.0 capabilities.
Microsoft ships Windows Service Pack 1
(InfoWorld)
Microsoft ships Windows Service Pack 1
(InfoWorld)
03/31/2005 03:23 AMInfoWorld - Microsoft on Thursday sent to manufacturing the first
Service Pack for Windows Server 2003, which is heavily flavored with
security enhancements and features, some addressing the root cause of
security issues that have caused headaches for corporate users.
Microsoft drops Mira support - Infoworld
Staff
Microsoft drops Mira support - Infoworld
Staff
01/09/2004 10:11 PMOnly about a year after the first Smart Displays shipped, Microsoft is
dropping further development of software for the displays that connect
wirelessly to a PC.
Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact (InfoWorld)
Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact (InfoWorld)
03/28/2005 10:13 AMInfoWorld - One year ago Microsoft and Sun Microsystems struck a peace
accord that has been described as a watershed event for the technology
industry and a potential boon for users. Although the deal ended the
antagonism between the companies, users still may have to wait well
into the 10-year alliance to see major results.
Microsoft still pursuing Java developers
- Infoworld Staff
Microsoft still pursuing Java developers
- Infoworld Staff
01/22/2004 03:20 AMMicrosoft is continuing its pursuit of Java developers.
Update: Microsoft heralds Web services
for devices - Infoworld Staff
Update: Microsoft heralds Web services
for devices - Infoworld Staff
02/17/2004 09:12 PMMicrosoft is leading a group of vendors proposing a specification
intended to extend Web services to devices.
Microsoft ships second Visual Studio
2005 beta (InfoWorld)
Microsoft ships second Visual Studio
2005 beta (InfoWorld)
04/18/2005 11:20 AMInfoWorld - Microsoft on Monday is releasing the second beta version
of its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 as well as the April Community
Technology Preview for the SQL Server 2005 database.
Microsoft exec broaches open source
paradigm (InfoWorld)
Microsoft exec broaches open source
paradigm (InfoWorld)
04/06/2005 08:42 PMInfoWorld - San Francisco -- Like a Roman Catholic speaking to an
audience of Protestant evangelicals, a Microsoft representative at the
Open Source Business Conference Wednesday focused on similarities
between traditional commercial projects and open source ventures,
rather than cite sharp differences.
In Brief: Microsoft takes Windows XP
Starter Edition to Brazil (InfoWorld)
In Brief: Microsoft takes Windows XP
Starter Edition to Brazil (InfoWorld)
04/12/2005 11:50 AMInfoWorld - Microsoft on Wednesday plans to announce it will offer a
simplified and lower-priced version of Windows XP in Brazil. Microsoft
already said it will offer the product in Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Russia, and India. The software is not sold in boxed
versions, but installed on cheap PCs designed for first time PC users.
Windows XP Starter Edition is part of Microsoft's efforts to take on
the growing threat of Linux and piracy, which is common in developing
markets. The limited, cheaper version offers localized support and
customization options, preconfigured settings, and simplified task
management. The starter OS lacks support for advanced features such as
home networking, sharing printers across a network, or the ability to
establish multiple user accounts on a single PC. It also limits the
number of applications that can run at a time to three. Analysts at
Gartner have dismissed it, saying it fails to meet the most basic
needs of users. Brazil is one of the countries where open source has
been getting traction, with the government promoting Linux products.
Microsoft did not say when the Brazilian version of Windows XP Starter
Edition will be available.
States want Microsoft licensing program
improved - Infoworld Staff
States want Microsoft licensing program
improved - Infoworld Staff
01/17/2004 10:42 PMA program intended to level the playing field in the software business
in the wake of the U.S. antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp.
doesn't seem to be working as intended, the states that have settled
with Microsoft said in a court filing released Friday.
Microsoft rolls out beta of Virtual
Server 2004 - Infoworld Staff
Microsoft rolls out beta of Virtual
Server 2004 - Infoworld Staff
02/19/2004 12:43 PMMicrosoft on Wednesday announced it has sent out to more than 15,000
testers the first beta of its Virtual Server 2004 , which features a
number of new capabilities including improved security.
Microsoft, Sun tackle Java from opposing
vantage points - Infoworld Staff
Microsoft, Sun tackle Java from opposing
vantage points - Infoworld Staff
02/18/2004 08:09 PMMicrosoft and Sun Microsystems this week are making moves in Java,
with Sun looking to boost the platform and Microsoft attempting to
lure developers away from it.
Update: Microsoft, BEA, Tibco tout Web
services events spec - Infoworld Staff
Update: Microsoft, BEA, Tibco tout Web
services events spec - Infoworld Staff
01/08/2004 07:56 PMMicrosoft, BEA Systems, and Tibco Software on Wednesday published a
specification, WS-Eventing, which is intended to provide a common way
of communicating events within and between Web services.
Glowing PC
Glowing PC
05/25/2004 04:35 PMGlowing Popsicles
Glowing Popsicles
07/23/2004 02:53 PMMATT GALLANT -- Now it's a little bit
easier to film your own remake of that one John Ritter movie where he
had a beard. Popsicles with hollow handles into which a
run-of-the-mill Glo-Stick has been inserted are now available at
7-11.
Read
- Glowing Popsicles [Mavromatic]
Glowing Crystals
Glowing Crystals
02/19/2004 07:24 PM
A few photos of the Kide sculpture.
I'm a regular visitor to Niklas
Sjöblom's photoblog as he takes nice pictures from around Helsinki
every day and a few weeks ago a
picture of the Kide sculpture took me by surprise as I hadn't seen
that since August 2000 out behind Kiasma during the day and unlit. I
found another photo of them in
front of the Tuomiokirkko, too. I thought it would be a great
excuse to trudge out in the -15C weather to try out a new tripod and
take a few photos. I arrived well after darkness had fallen so the
colours were bright, but the sky didn't have any colour to it at all.
I went back for a few more shots at sunset and will add those when I
have them developed.
The sculpture was to have been put into storage so I was somewhat
surprised to see it had found a new home out on a Ruoholahti
breakwater. It has seen better days as someone has taken a marker to
the cubes, some of the lights are dead and there is moisture in 2 of
them. Still, they are an interesting sight in the darkness. The
breakwater didn't have a fence around it so I didn't get too bold with
various angles since I didn't want to slip on the ice and fall 6
meters onto more ice and into the cold, cold water. You can see
Lauttasaari and it's alien spaceship/mushroom water reservoir from the
sculpture as well as lots of footprints in the snow across the ice.
I'm glad to see it found a new home.
Crysta
ls connecting nine Cities of Culture and European Cities of Culture for
the Year 2000 [PDF] have a lot more information and background
about the sculpture. The quick summary:
The sound and light sculpture Kide (Crystal), made of glass,
symbolised the connection between people and cultures. 'Crystal'
is the symbol project of the Helsinki City of Culture programme
and a salute to the eight other Cities of Culture for 2000. In
September 1999, a Crystal was installed in each of the Cities of
Culture, providing a visual connection between them through a
monitor near the sculpture itself. The Crystals will be returned to
Helsinki before the New Year and assembled into an 18-metre tunnel of
light on Senate Square; people may pass through this tunnel into the
new millennium. The Crystal resembles an ice cube; it is made of
laminated and reinforced glass elements. The middle one of the three
glass layers is shattered; the broken glass crystals create
reflections that shift as the viewer moves. The light source in the
Crystal reacts to the touch of a human hand, and the light grows
depending on how many people touch it. In the dark, the Crystal is
lit. The colour and sound world of each Crystal reflect the city in
which it is placed. The Crystal was designed by architects Kari
Leppänen and Peter Ch. Butter. The visual design is by Dusan Jovanovic
and the sound design by Jyrki Sandell. The glass construction is a
patented Finnish invention.
Our glowing undersea friends.
Our glowing undersea friends.
05/13/2004 02:16 AM
Cut
er than a fangtooth. Beautiful images of bioluminescent sea
creatures. Learn the
difference
between
fluorescence,
phosphorescence, and
bioluminescence, as well as the
science behind
the amazing chemical reaction. (I like the
fl
oppy-eared one the best--okay, the
p
lastic bag looking one is nifty too.)
Sparc still glowing, insists Sun
Sparc still glowing, insists Sun
12/04/2003 09:38 AMvnunet.com Dec 4 2003 8:48AM ET
Glowing review of GarageBand
Glowing review of GarageBand
01/22/2004 02:24 AMDavid Pogue reviews GarageBand, "Recording Studio in a Box": It won't
be long before the GarageBand creations of no-name singers and players
start popping up on Web sites - indeed, it won't be long before Web
sites start popping up just to accommodate them - bypassing the talent
scouts and gatekeepers of the American recording industry. GarageBand
and the Internet give tomorrow's stars their own democratic recording
and distribution channels. That prospect of new artists growing from
grass roots is...
Glowing Colons with Barium
Glowing Colons with Barium
06/21/2004 12:20 PM
« A mannequin in Talinn sporting a t-shirt that reminded
me of Perl people with the added bonus that it would make a splash
with the apostrophic jihad. »
Last week was YAPC::NA and I am sorry I missed Gnat's Lightning Talk
entitled What the
Perl Community Needs is a Good Enema. I've heard Gnat give
this sort of talk before as repetition is often an effective learning
tool, but this time he's getting closer to the truth. Mark Twain, a
fellow Missourian and cynic, once said, "Familiarity breeds
contempt...and children."
Perl has a seriously dysfunctional family at some levels; there are
sacred cows; there are needless politics; people suffer sociopaths for
their 'code' and other mystifying reasons. And, like any family with
problems who don't want to be confrontational, they tend to focus on
the abstract and far more benign symptoms of dysfunction instead which
usually does little to fix the problems, but does succeed in shifting
the uncomfortable point of focus elsewhere. CPAN is often a very
popular target of this phenomenon since it's easy to do, generally
vague and it carries little risk that anyone might actually force you
to put your money where your mouth is. The problem is people, that's
certain, but if there were any leadership in the community the
problems would, if not disappear, would at least be far less
destructive.
Let's return to July 2000, when TPC4 was in Monterey, CA and I was
invited on short notice to attend what was billed as a meeting to
attempt to draft something of a "Constitution" for the Perl community.
I was intrigued since, at the time, the community was as bitter, ugly,
and pissy as a crowd of open source nerds ever were. There were about
11 people in this meeting. After an hour or so of discussion about
what could be done to effect some positive social change in the
community, Jon Orwant showed up, tried to break the hotel stonewear
mugs built to outlast puny humans and somehow the idea of Perl6 became
the shining new light that would save Perl from stagnation and doom. I
felt a bit betrayed since I had originally pitched up for something I
felt was far more important and noone wanted to answer my question
"Why?".
I told Jarkko and a few others on the way out of that meeting that
they could count on P6 never coming to fruition until the deep and
vast social problems in the community were addressed. It wasn't a
popular comment, but I remained and still remain firm in my
conviction. The P6 project, in spite of itself, turned out to be the
best thing that ever happened to P5P since it drew most of the problem
people to the 'community rewrite' and left the folks who actually
wrote code to get things done. However, I don't think that was really
the point of the exercise and it has taken what was a fractured
community and simply added another gaping fissure which seems to belch
sulphurous gases at regular intervals.
Perl6 presaged what I have come to call "the age of the press
release" in the timeline of perl. People not only are legends in their
own minds and believe their own press releases, but many projects
since have been more concerned with the press release than the actual
project itself. It is a culture that has seriously lost sight of what
brought us all together in the first place. A culture so incredibly
pleased with itself that it forgets that volunteering for a job used
to mean that you did the work first without talking it to death. The
Perl Foundation is the only place I've EVER gotten bitched out for
pressing the issue of sending thank-you notes to donors. ALWAYS thank
your donors and volunteers, I don't care if you are some hopped up
nerd king who claims Asperger ate your social cortex. I'll admit that
I was a real PITA about it, but after 3 years and little improvement
it wasn't entirely unwarranted. I think the person behind that
particular clusterfuck is on both of our lists of what Nathan calls
"Oldbies" and I call "sociopathic MFs". This is the part where I start
waving my arms, cussing wildly and ranting about TPF but it, too, is
just a victim of the symptoms of a far larger problem.
I was on the White Camel Awards committee Gnat mentions and, with a
few other folks, subscribed to the list late but arrived just in time
to see the tail end of a rant followed by 2 or 3 people sending "I
quit!" messages. I wondered what in the hell was going on, got the
lowdown from someone in a private email and thought how typical for
perl people to make painful that which could be so easy and possibly
even pleasant. I had been prepared to stump for and debate over
candidates when I agreed to participate, but the enthusisam was gone
after that. I have, for many years, argued that the recipients of the
awards should be selected by the people in the community instead of an
awards cabal since they are touted as awards for service in the
community. The awards are important and they should reflect the
opinion of more than 4 or so people in a small cabal of friends who
bothered to vote. However, I'm not entirely certain that the community
at large could be bothered to care or vote these days. HJ gets
it even though he identifies the absence of the inner onion
entourage as a symptom in spite of the fact that the YAPC::EU
conferences rarely get the 'names' and are the conferences to be at
for the active developers in the past few years. He has noted well the
necrosis.
While I think Gnat needs to repeat his talk more often and in a more
pointed fashion, it needs to focus on the one thing that many of us
have pointed at for a long while; Perl needs some strong leadership.
It needs leaders who are less concerned about playing politics and
making nice to everyone while quietly bitching in the corner and
leaders who are willing to defile the sacred cows and who won't be
left twisting in the wind alone. Just inviting people to rewrite web
pages and join committees sounds a lot like the Perl6 "community
rewrite of Perl" call to glory which did little to solve any of the
social problems which are the soul of the malaise. Nothing will change
until those who enjoy all the benefits of being leaders without
actually leading, lead.
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the
person that holds it, but later we find that is an uncertain rule, for
we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us
more than an emperor's. -- Mark Twain
Bring me my glowing pop tart
Bring me my glowing pop tart
08/03/2004 04:29 PMMy old PCs are scattered to the wind, and I type this upon a
PowerBook, so it pains me to admit that I can't make use of the
perhaps the Greatest Invention Ever Created In The History of
Computing. As...
Glowing Soccer Balls and More
Glowing Soccer Balls and More
09/08/2004 07:22 AM
ITmedia reports from the floor of the 58th Annual Tokyo
International Gift Show about stuff that glows. We do of course have
an abundance of glow sticks, "Lumipads" and flashlights that
automatically turn on when power to the charger is interrupted, but
perhaps the most interesting item are glowing balls, like soccer balls
and golf balls. Allegedly, the company decided to make a soccer ball
with lights in it "for the children who work during the day and can
only play with their friends at night." How do you go about turning
the lights on, you ask? Remember those glow sticks you used at the
beach? Same concept - two liquids inside will mix when the stick is
bent and start to glow. Does that mean you have to toss the ball when
you're done with it?
The company plans on releasing the ball stateside as well; I'm
assuming it will be close to the ~$18 price of its Japanese
release.
Read - Article [ITmedia]
InfoWorld: Microsoft prepares security
assault on Linux: November 11, 2003: By
Kieren McCarthy, Techworld.com: Security
InfoWorld: Microsoft prepares security
assault on Linux: November 11, 2003: By
Kieren McCarthy, Techworld.com: Security
11/12/2003 10:23 PMGreen, Glowing Mouse Brains
Green, Glowing Mouse Brains
07/17/2004 06:08 PMA recent CMU
press release describes a breakthrough in the study of neurons in
living animals. Alison
Barth, a CMU neuroscientist, has developed a method to directly
identify activated neurons in a living creature, genetically modified
with a glowing green flourescent
protein (GFP) and a gene called c-fos which turns on when a nerve
cell is activated. Past methods such as MRI have allowed scientists to
see only the general area of the brain in which activity was taking
place but this
new method shows precisely which neurons are active. The new method
has
been used to reverse-engineer the neural paths and activity in sensory
data processing of mouse whiskers. This data could lead to better
computer simulations of neural processes, among other things.
Fungi firm has glowing future
Fungi firm has glowing future
11/04/2003 07:07 PMScotsman Online Nov 4 2003 6:19PM ET
Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?
Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?
03/19/2003 10:44 PMThe constant clacking would drive you nuts (though, that would also be
a good indication of the activity of your stocks...). Google knows all
[google.com]. ...
Hellraiser casemod with glowing embedded
Pinhead
Hellraiser casemod with glowing embedded
Pinhead
03/24/2005 04:51 PMCory Doctorow:
This Hellraiser casemod (complete with red-glowing embedded Pinhead)
is stupendously badass. Even the mouse has heads embedded in it.
Link
(
Thanks, Arlen!)
Glowing 'cop' that detects poisons in a
jiffy
Glowing 'cop' that detects poisons in a
jiffy
07/08/2004 08:26 PMStraits Times Jul 9 2004 0:40AM GMT
eBay: IRAQ GLOWING MARBLES RADIOACTIVE
URANIUM
eBay: IRAQ GLOWING MARBLES RADIOACTIVE
URANIUM
05/24/2004 06:06 AMIn any future I want to live in, every boy's pockets will be brimming
with radioactive depleted uranium marbles. These ones for sale on eBay
(mysteriously marketed as 'iRaq glowing') may not be exactly the same
as my dreams, but...
Exploding glowing lights in Leicester
Square [Flickr]
Exploding glowing lights in Leicester
Square [Flickr]
12/29/2004 06:05 PMPC World Magazine and About.com Articles
Report Glowing Assessments of BugMe! for
PDA and Smartphone Users
PC World Magazine and About.com Articles
Report Glowing Assessments of BugMe! for
PDA and Smartphone Users
09/22/2004 02:13 AMPC World Magazine and About.com have both recently published reviews
of Electric Pocket's BugMe! note-taking and reminder-alarm software
for PDAs and smartphones. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]
DIY CD Lamp
DIY CD Lamp
06/06/2005 12:09 AM
A man who thought that
sunlight looks beautiful as it refracts through the side of a CD-ROM
shouldn't be trusted with power tools, but I guess they're more lax
about that up in Canada. Jim Watters, a former QA tester, had about 70
CDs and decided to make a lamp in order to recreate that warm, plastic
glow. The resulting DIY project is a wonderful fire hazard made of a
tube light and some plywood. (Thanks, Luke)
CD Lamp
[Photocreations]
Gravity Lamp
Gravity Lamp
09/22/2004 08:39 AM
This "Gravity" lamp from one of our favorite design
houses Front is a concept design that detects when you enter and exit
a room, perking up straight and shining brightly upon your arrival,
and slowly drooping down to slumber when after you leave. This is
appealing not only because it gives the lamp a sense of personality -
albeit a sycophantic one centered around its need for its master's
approval - but because it takes us one step closer to the real future
we all crave, where each night we retire to our own personal version
of Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Read -
Gravity [FunFurde]
Post It Lamp
Post It Lamp
04/07/2005 09:22 AM
The Post
It Lamp is great. Why ship a lamp in bulky packaging when you can make
a lamp from the packaging itself? Pop open the tube, flip out clip and
roll-out shade, and unfurl the cord. The lamp base will still have the
stamps and your address on it, but that's even better. It's on sale
for about 23 bucks.
P
ost It Lamp by 2pm [TreeHugger]
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